Arbeitspapier
Cash-in-hand, benefit fraud and unemployment insurance
Recent evidence questions the nature of the re-employment spike as unemployment insurance (UI) payments expire. Unemployed agents do not appear to devote more time to search and are observed leaving the UI scheme early without necessarily entering employment. We show that benefit fraud is consistent with both observations. Over time, UI recipients become increasingly willing to accept short-term cash-in-hand work. This takes them away from job search. Im- mediately before UI expiry, the risk of punishment for fraud exceeds the value of remaining payments. Recipients may voluntarily leave the scheme to accept cash-in-hand opportunities.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Cardiff Economics Working Papers ; No. E2015/4
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Informal Labor Markets
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- Subject
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Cash-in-hand
Benefit fraud
Unemployment insurance
Re-employment spike
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Long, Ian W.
Polito, Vito
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
- (where)
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Cardiff
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Long, Ian W.
- Polito, Vito
- Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
Time of origin
- 2015
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